The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 12, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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STEPHEN VILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER; 12, 1931
Number 12
PLOWBOY!
MZ
Well,. practice has started for
basketball. There ate or^ly two let-
ter men hack and the rest are all
new. Hamil and Stockton are the
two letter men who know their
stuff. . "
There is no center and the place
will Be a '.'hot spot" for competi-
tion. Company basketball is ovei
and practice started Monday after-
noon with Coach Wisdom and
"Choc" Sanders giving ■ the squad
some information as how to become
good players.
Thirty-one men reported for
practice which turned out to be a
skull practice. Many more are ex-
pected to come out -as the season
advances.
There will be about twenty-five
places open with about ten or
twelve on the-varsity squad.
The conference this year will in-
clude some of the larger universi-
ties as well as the Junior colleges.
Qame3 are sought with A. C. C.,
Howard Payne, Daniel Baker, etc.
All in all it's going to be a fast
and interesting season with the
men all with the "I wanna play
basketball" spirit^ it couldn't be
anything else but a success. If a
man wants to play, he'il give his
all and no less, '
DEAN DAVIS RETURNS
FROM CONVENTION DF
GOLLEGEJEXEGUTtVES
■ Dean J. Thomas Davis has just
returned, from attendance upon the
convention . of' the Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools of
the Southern States.
This Association is: one of the
largest standardizing associations
of colleges. It S3 more far-reaching
and effective than any other or-
ganization of colleges. Those col-
leges which become members of
this Association have to be studied
very throughly for several years
by.college experts arid have to
submit records and reports in de-
tails showing, the quality of work
done, quality of. student body, and
the training,, experience, and abili-
ty'of the faculty; The administra-
tion of the curriculum also is a
large factor in determining the
standing'of i-. allege,
John Tarlett.n College was among
the first of tbss janior colleges of
the Southern States to become a
member of the Southern Associa-,
tion. Membership in this Associa-
tion gives a' college not only South-
wide and Natum-wide but also' in-
ternationai prestige and standing.
Graduates from colleges which are
not member of this Association
are not. eligible to enter the senior
professional schools which are
members of the Association:; neith-
er ..are the graduates of colleges
which are not members of the As-
sociation eligible to teach in the
best high schools and colleges in
the country. On the other hand, the
graduates of those colleges which
are recogni^d members of .the As-
sociation are eligible to enter the
profes sional. schools 'without ex-
amination and t-- u. A .in any■ of
the first ciass colleges and high
■echoolt'i throughout the. country.
Thir? was a most excellent ses-
sion of intensive work for the best
interest of the btfc&olb and colleges
of th ^ Southern States,
Dean. Davis is president of the
executives of the. junior colleges
which attend this Association,
, NEW BABY FOR McCOLLUMS
A seven and a . half pound baby
boy was boru to Mr,' and Mrs. R.
L. McCoilum Thursday, December
3. It- h"= l^en named ' Kenneth
Boyd. Me. McCojlum is professor
of chemistry.
M'LEAN GIVES MOST
ENJOYABLE CONCERT;
HEARS VOICE PUPILS
Accompanist Is Efficient and Ac-
, compliahed —Memorizes
All Her Songs
Cameron McLean, noted bari-
tone and one of the greatest ar-
tists in th? world today,. gave one
of the most wonderful concerffr
that have, been heard in the Tarle-
toil Auditorium, His interpretation
of his songs is said to be the most-
vivid of any American, artist of
today. The New, York Post says:
"Cameron McLean is -generously
endowed with the singing art and
the power of facial expressiveness.
What a gift is this latter . . when
combined with a genuine feeling
for song. Few are the singers pos-
sessed of the natural aptitude to
. . . express visibly a mood.",
Charles Wakefield Cadman
states: "Here is a voice of rich
resonance combined with an art
which, has a touch of1 genius. A
welcome addition to the few who
are legitimate recital artists. He
is imaginative and original."
Other reviews nime him as the
David Bispham of today, possess-
ing superlative artistry and a
voice flawless, flexible, and even.
Mr. McLean honored the con-
servatory .with a visit Saturday
morning, and gave audition .to
several of the voice students when
they sang for him. He complimen-
ted these students, very highly on
their'voices and delivery of their
songs, Mr. McLean is a very good-
natured and genial man arid has a
wonderful' sense of humor.
Mr.' McLean's accompanist, Miss
Mabelle Howe Mable, is very ef-
ficient and accomplished. .She has
a ■ charming personality and is
quite genial. She is one of the few
accompanists for artists that mem-
orizes her accompaniments, haying
memorized four hundred songs.
Miss Mable has been Mr. McLean's
accompanist for eight years.
Mr. McLean's program consisted
of the follewing numbers:
Where e'er You Walk, from "Sem-
ele,f George F. -Handel; Over The
Mountains, 1540, Arranged by
Roger Quilter—From. "Mustek's
Recreation on the-Yyra Viol"
Aria, 11 Lacerito Spffrito, G.
Verdi—From Verdi's Little Known
Opera, "Simon Bpccanegro"
Der Jungling an der Quelle,
Franz Schubert; The Floral Dance,
Old English, Kate Moss; The Old
Lamplighter, from Sketches of
Paris, Kathleen Manning; Song of
.the Flea, M. Moussorgsky—From
Goethe's "Faust" '
Wi' A Hundred Pipers, Arrang-
ed by Arthur ' Whiting; Leezie
Lindsay, Arranged by Fritz Kreis-
ler; Mary of -Argyle ! Thomas
Hook; . A Ballynure Ballad-Arran-
(Continued on page 4)
PERSONALITY OF SINGER
CHARMING AS HIS VOICE
Mr. Cameron McLean, noted
baritone who sang here Friday
night has as charming' person-
ality as he has voice. He seems
to be able to talk to several per-
sons at one time and not offend
any of them. The gracious man-
ner in which he greets . people
and his attentiveness while talk-
ing' to them (including faculty
members, ■ music- students, and
reporters) makes him an .even
more interesting character.
Mr. McLean was born in Scot-
land and received his education
in the British Isles, pis parents
still live in Scotland^ He enjoys
.singing before College audiences
for he says that they are always
composed of the most cultured
people and that they know how
to interpret and appreciate mu
sic. He is very fond of telling
jokes and thinks that Scotch
jokes are especially amusing.
The Americans Are as Strange to the
English Ben Greet Players as They Are
To Us; They Relax by Going to a Movie
"Your speech sounds as peculiar
to us as ours does to you," said
Peter Dearing in an interview,
after the presentation of "Twelfth
Night" by the Ben Greet Players.
Mr. Dearing thought it very amus-
ing that he could not be under-
stood when he interrupted the in-
terview to talk, across the audi-
torium with Basil Dear.
To the Ben Greet Players the
American sense - of humor is sur-
prisingly inconsistent. Lines which
the players h^ve set aside as lauprh
lines often get no laugh at all. In
the production of "Twelfth Night",
the- play was cut from fifteen to
twenty minutes shorter because of
the absence of laughs—pronounced
lawfs—where they were expected,.
The actors have learned, however,
to expect in America everything
from tears to laughter after any
speech in a "play.
"In presenting a play, do you
ever get your lines mixed with
those of other plays?"
"No. You see, by the time one
has lived a part of any play for a
period of three years or more the
lines become a part of him. When
he enters into the atmosphere of a
play, he simply lives the part of
the character he is playing."
Peter Dearing is the adopted
son of Ben Greet and "is being
trained to produce plays so that
he may continue Ben Greet's ^ort.
When asked if the company had
ever produced any plays on ship-
board, Mr., Dearing replied, "No,
but I have always wanted to tour
on "a show boat. I think I shall
some day." ..
The Englishman's culinary tastes
seem to be more highly developed
than ' the average American's. At
any rate, his sense of taste is too
delicate to enjoy chilli, black beans,
and other Mexican dishes. How-
ever, an actor can always "stock
up on bread,1 and butter enough
to sustain him through a play."
Mr. Dearing was asked to name
some English' dishes which were
nationally popular in his country.
With an expressive gesture he
uttered t'.io one word "Fish." The
menu of the English seem to be
rr-Vde up largely of -fish. There are
f y3ter cocktails, oyster soup, fried
fish,-stewed fish, stuffed fish, and
many other varieties of fish dishes,
the number of which depends up-
on the expertness of the chef in
charge of the menu.
Strange as it piay seem to out-
siders, the members of the Ben
Greet Company seek entertain-
ment in the theatres and moving
picture house. Besides satifying
their love of dra.ma, the witness-
ing of other plays, broadens these
actors' educations. Merely learning
a part and acting it is not enough
for actors such as these are. There
is always something valuable to
be gained by an actor in witness-
ing the work of another actor—a
new interpretation of a speech or
a solution to a troublesome prob-
lem.
On being asked how he passed
his < short vacation periods; Mr.
Dearing replied, "Why, I go to see
other , plays. I went to eight in two
weeks 'in London the last I was off
duty. Once in a while I go to-the
movie houses. We have the same
pictures over there that you have,
here,"
Mr. Dearing's home is in Lon-
don.
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BASKETBALL TILT BY
20-26 ME OVER A
B Triumphs Over C 24-14; Rucker
Is High Score Man
With 13 Points.
In the playoff of Company
basketball, Company D won over
Company A by a score of 29-26.
The game was packed with thrills
and it was all Choc Sanders could
do to keep from jumping up and
down. A large number of students
turned out tp witness the contest.
- The starting lineups for the
games'played during the, champion-
ship contests were: Company D;
Rucker, Jones, Richardson, Styles,
and. Hoyle, Substitutes; Gilliland
and Riley. Rucker was high point
man the last games played, with
thirteen points against Company
A. They were all field goals except
one free pitch.
The lineup for Company A was
as follows: Coffee, Brewster,Young,
Wallace, and Bramlette. Substi-
tutes : Whitby. Brewster was high
point man for Company A with
nine points.
Companies B and C played be-
tween halves and B triumphed with
a 24-14 score. Spikes was high
score for Company B with eight
points - while Felkner was . high
for C with six points. Company
C's lineup was Felkner, Hill, Greg-
ory, Ward, and Wetls; Substitutes,
Baxter, Louis, and Hennigan.
Company B's lineup was Gardner,
Spikes, Taylor, Palmo, and Mathis.
This set of scores left D at the
top with Rucker as high score
man for the evening*
GEORGE WILCOX IS HURT
IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
Mr; A. H. Wilcox's little boy,
George, aged seven, was hit by a
car on Tarleton Avenue last week.
Four stitches had to be taken in his
head.
S.A.ING TAKES SPURT
WITH WARMER DAYS
At first it seemed'as though the
bad weather of the first part' of
the week was going to have a
very depressing -affect on. the S.
A'ers of the campus—but no: it
was really too good to last very
long. As soon as old Man Sunshine
came out—the S, A'ers came with
him, and worse still—there were
some new cases. At least one. may
count them as good future pros-
pects, judging from all appearan-
ces of those seen about the campus
and in the Dump parlors Friday
and Saturday. We have the "low
down" on Ophelia Horton and
Clifford Thomson; "Red" Dearing
and M. Alice Short; Merle Jones
and Simms; Frances Harvey and
R. V. Kelly; Ollie Burcket and
George Wood; Jonnie M, J(oyca
and Potts; Estelle Mobley and
Thaxton.
Although some subjects may be
hard and some teachers may be
harder, there are still some stud-
ents who can pass fifteen hours
of S, Aing without any trouble at
all. For instance—
Askew and Palmer; Benson and
Fuller: Withers and Stockton;
Kinchen and Scruggs; Finley and
Cox; Hicks and Whitley; Lang-
don and ' Bonner; Towsend and
Smith; Thomas and : Shurtleff;
Greer and Brewster; Widman'and
Guitar; Bost and Sansing; Meade
and Walsh; Hunter. and Allison;
Long' and Warren;. Kinard and
Hearn; and Wyatt and Longacre.
TARLETONITE IS ON
LIVESTOCK JUDGING
TEAM FIRST IN I), S
Henry Turney and Three Others
Win National Honors.
At K. C. Meet, .
Henry Turney, Joe Liles, F. C.
Schillingburg and Bryon dewber-
ry, atternate, composed a judging
team which represented Texas in
the- National Livestock Judging
Contest held in Kansas City Nov-
ember 14-21. The team yas in the
state contest last year for Dublin
high school. Jim Bird, D, H. S,
vocational agriculture instructor,
coached the team. Three members
of the team are now in college.
Henry Turney is a Tarleton stu-
dent, Joe Liles is at Texas Tech,
and F. C. Shillingburg is at A. &
M. Byron Newberry is still in high
school.
They won first place in beef
cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses
judging over teams representing
thirty-three states, ■ Kansas proved
to be the hardest competitor. The
Texas team.' won, over them,. how-
ever, by a fraction of a point out
of a possible 2500 points. Th^a is
the first time Texas has ever won
the National Livestock ■ Judging
Contest. Last year Illinois held
first place, California won in 1929,
while Oklahoma has held it twice.
The team won a loving cup and a
sixteen-volum© encylopedia for the
Dublin high school.
PLAYERS BACK-STAGE
AREBUSYAND SILENT
Everything was different behind
the curtain from what it-was on
the stage when "Hamlet" was con-
cluded Tuesday night. What be-
fore had been perfect regularity
and ease was transformed into
haste and much rushing- about. At
each interference, one of the men,
who was packing a large trunk,'
would shake his head and continue
with his hurried work without
speaking. Almost as -soon as - the
curtain;, dropped, the setting had
been taken-, down and packing had
begun.'The players were rushing
here, and there, but with a know-
ledge of where they were going
and what they were going for.
Downstairs, things were scattered
all over the floor. Trunks were
opened < and piping was unjoin ted'
arid carried out. The players had
changed from' their costumes in-
to comfortable working clothes and
were hurrying to catch1 the next
train out. All were quiet as they
moved about, picking this up, find-
ing the proper trunk for it, and
going from .one to the other—al-
ways moving. No word of the play
or how they, thought the audience
appreciated it cam© from any of
the players. When, everything was
packed, the men took a hand and
carried the trunks to two large
trucks waiting at the entrance
near the rear of the auditorium.
What ,was most obvious to the on-
lookers, . unless it , was the speed
and accuracy in which* the players
did 'their work, was the silence of
the group. Nobody spoke, no sound
except the shuffling of feet and
the thumps and thuds of the fall-
ing" objects as they came to the
floor or were quickly and dexter-'1
ously tossed into open trunks.
A cadet applied for a job in a
butcher shop.
"How much will you give me?"
"Three dollars a week; but "what
can you. do to make yourself use- j
ful around a butcher shop?" 1
Anything."
"Well, be specific. Can you jre'.s
a chicken?"
"Not on $3 a week/' said the
cadet, as he walked out.
Demoted
"My advice to you," said the
baseball manager to the, rookie he
had been giving a try out, "is to
join one of the Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea."
i THE WEATHER
( By Gum
| it was a beautiful, beautiful
' rain—but we didn't need it.
Itain; Monday, Wednesday,
and I riday morning probably
followed by showers,
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